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Mobile Emission Reduction Credit (MERC) |
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Mobile Emission Reduction Credit (MERC) is an approach towards reducing emission of pollutions by providing economic incentives within the sphere of transportation.
The process of minimizing pollution in the transportation sector is also known as emission trading or cap and trade. The growing environmental pollution and global warming is a grave concern for economists. Hence, it has become imperative to develop methods to control air pollution.
Creating Mobile Emission Credits is a cost effective process, while using technology like SCR or SNCR. Emission Reduction Specialists (ERS) can help industries and companies to finance and implement Mobile Emission Reduction Projects in any area that has an emission credit trading program in place or grant program like Texas’s TERP program.
Mobile sources refer to equipment that can move from one place to another such as engines, motor vehicles, cars, trucks, passenger cars, buses, earth moving equipment, construction and farm equipment, garden tools, marine engines, railroad locomotives and airplanes. Recreational vehicles, which do not move on road, such as snowmobiles and dirt bikes are also mobile sources. These are collectively contributors to pollution.
The series of steps involved in the creation of Mobile Emission Reduction Credit (MERC) are:
1.Reduction technology for a pollutant should be identified.
2.Mobile source should be identified.
3.A Portable Emissions Measurement System should be utilized in order to measure emissions of the pollutant and the first measurements of the pollutant should be taken from the mobile source.
4.The measurements to develop a baseline emissions amount should be analyzed.
5.The emissions reduction technology should be applied to the mobile source to provide a modified mobile source.
6.The Portable Emissions Measurement System should be connected to the modified mobile source and the second measurements of the modified mobile source should be taken.
7.The second measurements to develop a modified emissions amount should be analyzed.
8.The mobile emissions reduction produced by the emissions reduction technology should be quantified.
9.The mobile emissions reduction should be converted into a tradable commodity.
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